What Comes Around...

Crouse cites an article in Religion Journal which said youth pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention were worried about large numbers of evangelicals taking part in Wicca, a religion that involves nature worship, stresses moral autonomy, and includes remedies and spells -- beliefs that Crouse points out are distinctly different from orthodox Christianity, not to mention incompatible with the Bible.

The U.S. religious marketplace is extremely volatile, with nearly half of American adults leaving the faith tradition of their upbringing to either switch allegiances or abandon religious affiliation altogether, a new survey finds.

5 comments:

I read this blog for amusement, as it is very enlightening, but the religious side is hard to grasp for me as I live in Sweden.

I mean no one in their right mind would believe that the Babtist Church would convert to Wiccans, now would you. And worship the god of the hunt, the Solar god.

But what are these gods all representations of if not of the spiritual archetypes, that are very similar in all ancient religions to the ones that are still in place in one form or another depending on where you live.

The wiccans also worship the Mother, and Christians worship the Virgin Mary.

What is more important to remember is that the old testament was written in Hebrew, and there is some errors in the translation still there. For example if you look up the word that is tranlated to sorcerer in Exodus 22, v.17 in modern versions of the Bible, you will see that in the Hebrew meaning it refers not so much to a sorceress as to a poisoner. (Modern Magick by M. Donald Kraig)

That phrase has been quite damaging otherwise, and if it was put there with purpose, it was evil indeed: "Though shalt not suffer a witch to live."

What my international readers should understand is that most people commonly think of as the Religious Right was primarily a political project initiated and funded by elements within the Republican Party apparatus. Now that the party itself is falling apart, so too is the Religious Right. The same exact thing happened with the so-called mainline churches, which were funded by the old Eastern establishment. I'd predict in five years the movement will be in ruins and all the big GOP financiers will have completely pulled the plug by then. The movement is no longer useful to its paymasters.

Well, as I alluded to in a previous post, GOP Senator Charles Grassley has been sicked on the megachurches over their tax frauds and there've been no shortage of scandals with individual megaministers. Now, we're seeing the proof that all of this "explosive growth" was largely an illusion. What you had was consolidation and people leaving the tired old mainline churches to listen to Britney Spears-type music in Soviet looking megachurch auditoriums. The only growth was in birthrates, but all of those kids are drifting away from the big churches. This has been going on for a few years.

HELP TAKE THE SECRET SUN TO THE NEXT LEVEL! DONATE!

Call them the Shemsu Sun!

Χριστόφορος Δάφνη Βουναλάκι

Author of the Eagle Award-winning Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes, published by Red Wheel/Weiser and co-author of The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths, and the Movies, published by Insight Editions.
The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll is available from Viva Editions now!

Your Ticket to Wib...

SECRET SUNCLOUD

Check out my demos on Soundcloud!

PART OF THE REALITY-BASED HIGH WEIRDNESS COMMUNITY

Please make note that the Secret Sun is a cultural blog, dealing with esoteric themes in pop culture and the media. This site is 100% independent, not-for-profit, non-aligned, and unaffiliated with any group, sect or organization.

Most importantly, the interpretations and symbolic narratives on this site are entirely those of the author, unless specified otherwise. The Secret Sun deals with the power of the archetypes to tell their own stories, regardless of conscious intent.The Secret Sun hews to no political, religious or philosophical agenda.

SECRET SUN SUPPORTS SOMA FM

Knowles' Laws

1. Whenever a controversy over symbolism erupts in the media, it's usually disguising another hidden symbolic message altogether.

2. The probability that a UFO story is a deliberate hoax or intentional misidentification is correlative to the amount of mainstream media coverage it receives.

3. The more convoluted or abstract the motive or the objective in a conspiracy theory is, the less likely that theory is to be true.

The Secret Sun Motto(es)

SOMNIUM MENS estIANUA ut INFINITIO

"The Dreaming Mind isthe Doorway to Eternity"

CONGRUO EST OCCULTUSCOMPAGES SUBTERSUPTER ANIMADVERTO

"Coincidence is the Hidden Architecture of Reality"

Fair Use Notice

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. As a journalist, I am making such material available in my efforts to advance understanding of artistic, cultural, historic, religious and political issues. I believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.

In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Copyrighted material can be removed on the request of the owner.